[@bewitchingfiction Participant 9 years, 3 months ago]

Hi Shane,

Thanks, I have had a look over there.

PI

[@bewitchingfiction Participant 9 years, 4 months ago]

HI bumping this as it seems to be an issue that some of my users are still experiencing.

Thanks

[@bewitchingfiction Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

Hi @danbp,

I have a page called ‘groups’ I have permalinks activated and the slug for the groups page is:

http://www.bewitching-fiction.com/groups/

I have no trash, the only pages I actually have on the site that are WordPress are related to the blog, there are just 7 pages in total on the whole site 🙂 I believe in minimalism.

[@bewitchingfiction Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

Hi, I have tested with all, had to deactivate things like Jetpack which then had to be re-activated. I am still experiencing the same issues. The page still looks like the screenshot attached below

I deactivated the plugins one by one but it made no difference at all.

Help?

[@bewitchingfiction Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

I have tried with multiple themes, including the 2015, 14 and 13. I am currently using Firmasite (which works but isn’t the most user-friendly in other ways). I have BBpress, Buddypress, Mailchimp for WordPress, Akismet (activated), Buddypress Group Chat, Buddypress Security Check, Jetpack. I try and keep the plugins to a minimum as my WordPress site is only used for the forums – I use efiction in a subfolder for the main part of my site.

[@bewitchingfiction Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

Hi @caniwigirl,

That is exactly what I am experiencing. As I said, I have found one template that displays all the groups but the display on other things (as it hasn’t been updated in a while) has stopped working properly so it is a template I am looking to remove in the near future – as soon as I find a template that displays all the hidden groups to the people who are members of them.

[@bewitchingfiction Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

I have two such groups – both with different memberships.

I have provided the users with the URL but that relies upon them either remembering it or constantly referring to their email.

I have looked at using a further plugin but I have about 9 already for the forum functionality alone, and the more php functions I call during a page load the slower my site becomes (because of the set up of my site at the host level – something I have no control over).

I have also used all the widget slots that I feel comfortable with (about 5 on the page) in order to ensure that the layout is neither too cluttered nor too messy (I find the more stuff you use the less pleasant the site is to look at) – I work for a charity for the visually impaired and one thing we discovered was that users – no matter what their visual capabilities – didn’t like a cluttered page.

I will continue to look, but really my point is that if there is a piece of functionality in something then it should work – UAT isn’t hugely expensive (part of my professional job as it happens) and that is something which would have failed it – it would be nice if there were clear guidelines on which templates (including the core ones) worked with the hidden/private group settings before they were used – I have spent so many hours mucking around with templates only for them to fail at that last hurdle (the groups not appearing) it’s getting rather frustrating.

[@bewitchingfiction Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

Hi @canwigirl,

Unfortunately, that won’t work for me, mostly because the groups are already in use and have been for over a month. I don’t use the actual comments/blogging functionality of WordPress at all on my site at all and asking the users to repost a large number of the conversations so that they could continue would be unfeasible. Really I want to know why this particular functionality is included on the forum build if it doesn’t work in the majority (make that the largest majority) of templates (Firmasite is the only one I have found where the hidden groups actually appear but it has certain appearance issues that it doesn’t appear to be able to correct without a large amount of additional coding).

[@bewitchingfiction Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

Hi, I actually came here to see if anyone else had found a resolution for this issue. I have found one template that displays the ‘hidden’ groups as they should be shown on the relevant profiles but after several comments from people on the forums decided to go with a different theme yet I am unable to find one that still displays the hidden groups on the profiles (one is just a group with no forum but a chatroom as it’s used for weekly meetings so it wouldn’t even be possible to find it using ‘most recent posts.’.

Any advice/information would be greatly appreciated. Hidden groups are important to the running of my site as they are where the mods meet to discuss any issues and have some time away from the rest of the forum, but they are of no use if even the members of them can’t find them.